{"id":103541,"date":"2020-03-10T04:40:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T11:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/unusual-tear-drop-shaped-half-pulsating-star-discovered-by-amateur-astronomers"},"modified":"2020-03-10T04:40:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T11:40:17","slug":"unusual-tear-drop-shaped-half-pulsating-star-discovered-by-amateur-astronomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/unusual-tear-drop-shaped-half-pulsating-star-discovered-by-amateur-astronomers","title":{"rendered":"Unusual tear-drop shaped, half-pulsating star discovered by amateur astronomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unusual-tear-drop-shaped-half-pulsating-star-discovered-by-amateur-astronomers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This new star only appears to be pulsating in one hemisphere of its surface.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve known theoretically that stars like this should exist since the 1980s,\u201d said Don Kurtz, study co-author and inaugural Hunstead Distinguished Visitor at the University of Sydney from the University of Central Lancashire in Britain. \u201cI\u2019ve been looking for a star like this for nearly 40 years and now we have finally found one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new star only appears to be pulsating in one hemisphere of its surface. \u201cWe\u2019ve known theoretically that stars like this should exist since the 1980s,\u201d said Don Kurtz, study co-author and inaugural Hunstead Distinguished Visitor at the University of Sydney from the University of Central Lancashire in Britain. \u201cI\u2019ve been looking for a star [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":551,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}